gradle: copy war to tomcat directory

Question

I'm trying to write a Gradle task which copies generated war files to my local tomcat instance:

This isn't working and I'm not sure how to debug it:

 task deploylocal() << {     println "Copy from ${buildDir}\\libs into ${tomcatHome}/webapps"     copy{       from "${buildDir}\\libs"       into "${tomcatHome}/webapps"       include '*.war'     }   } 

Any ideas on what to do next?

Answer 1

The WAR task is aware of the artifacts it generates.

task deployToTomcat(type: Copy) {     from war.archivePath     into "${tomcatHome}/webapps" } 

Answer 2

I accomplished this with:

task deploy (dependsOn: war){     copy {         from "build/libs"         into "C:/dev/jetty-distribution-9.1.4.v20140401/webapps"         include "*.war"     } } 

running it like this:

gradle deploy